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Fileline documentation1.x
Getting started

Requirements

What Fileline needs to run, and which servers, themes and editors it works with.

  • WordPress 6.5 or later.
  • PHP 7.4 or later (PHP 8.1 or later recommended).
  • MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+, as WordPress needs. Fileline keeps versions in a table of its own (wp_fileline_versions); the downloads themselves are posts.
  • No WooCommerce or other plugin.

Web servers

Server Protected folder Faster sending of big files
Apache, LiteSpeed Works out of the box (.htaccess) X-Sendfile, if mod_xsendfile (Apache) is installed; LiteSpeed supports it natively
IIS Works out of the box (web.config, with IIS's Request Filtering) PHP sending
nginx Add the rule shown under Downloads → Settings X-Accel-Redirect, with the internal location shown there
Others Use your server's own way to refuse requests to wp-content/uploads/fileline PHP sending works everywhere

See Secure serving and server setup for the details.

Both work. With pretty permalinks, download links look like /download/press-kit/; with plain ones, /?fileline=12.

Themes and editors

  • Block themes (such as Twenty Twenty-Five): use the Download button and Download list blocks.
  • Classic themes (such as Storefront or Astra) and page builders: use the [fileline] and [fileline_list] shortcodes.

Buttons take your theme's own button style. Downloads are edited with the classic editor, which keeps the Versions and Access boxes together on one screen.